Friday, June 16, 2006

Hillary's Position   [Jonah Goldberg]

Mickey Kaus writes :

The NY Post's estimable Deborah Orin ridicules Hillary Clintons's Iraq position:

On Iraq, Clinton's problem is that it's such an intensely polarizing issue where there's no middle ground - and most Democrats are intensely against it.

That leaves Clinton twisting herself in bizarre pretzel shapes as she claims to be against President Bush's "open-ended commitment," but also against setting "a date certain" to withdraw.

I join in mocking Hillary's politically-damaging stand—the "kind of tangled straddle-speak [that] killed 2004 loser John Kerry"—except isn't it, you know ... the right position (whether or not the war was a bad gamble in the first place)? ... 1:13 P.M.

Me: I guess my question is, what position is Mickey referring to? The quotes I saw says that she's opposed to the left and the right — as she defines them — but never actually said what she is in favor of, just what she opposed. I'm open to the idea that Hillary has the right position — though dubious whether she believes it — but I just don't know what it is and Mickey doesn't say.

06/16 11:15 AMShare